Vates demoed on kubecon an ARM workstation running XCP-ng, a xen-based virtualization platform.
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/11/13/xcp-ng-on-arm-with-ampere/
It’s still early days, but I’m hoping it can reach homelabs, the big question being hardware enablement, which is difficult on ARM baseboards due to lack of standardization.
Disclaimer: I work with Vates, and prepared some component to compile under ARM to prepare the demo.
I know, yes. But I’m talking about virtualization, not containerizarion
Personally, I want to properly isolate the services with virtualization. The main reason is I expose some of the services online, and I don’t t want to only rely on keeping all software up-to-date at all times. This allows me to limit the damage if one of the services is compromised.
I wouldn’t use MacOS as the virtualization platform, and instead use something else, like BSD, Linux, or xen-based for my servers
I’ve used Wayland exclusively for years, but here’s an example: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/
tl;Dr the Wayland ecosystem has still not caught up in all edge cases, the weirder setup you have the more likely you’re affected